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Further Reading by Matthew Rubery
Booksplease Price: $95.37What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close... -
Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences by Matthew Rubery
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57What does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This... -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book by Matthew Rubery 9780674545441
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $57.49Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of... -
Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies Matthew Rubery 9781138833371
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human... -
The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction After the Invention of the News by Matthew Rubery 9780195369267
Booksplease Price: $187.01The Novelty of Newspapers explains why the Victorian novel is best understood alongside the simultaneous development of the news as a commercial commodity read by up to a million readers per day... -
The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction After the Invention of the News by Matthew Rubery 9780195369274
Booksplease Price: $76.46Arising in the 1800s and soon drawing a million readers a day, the commercial press profoundly influenced the work of Bronte, Braddon, Dickens, Conrad, James, Trollope, and others who mined print... -
Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism by Stephen Donovan 9781551113302
RRP: $89.60Booksplease Price: $69.81Lurid, controversial, and vulnerable to accusations of titillation or rabble-rousing, the works of Victorian investigative journalism collected here nonetheless brought unseen suffering into the... -
Undercover: Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction by Stephen Donovan 9781009586399
Booksplease Price: $177.20The scandalous 1866 publication of 'A Night in a Workhouse' altered the course of press history. Victorian journalist James Greenwood's disconcerting expose of spending a night in a casual ward while... -
What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age by Dr Beth Driscoll 9781350375185
Booksplease Price: $47.97Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each... -
Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings by Jason Camlot 9781503605213
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $83.89Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of... -
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective Sara Lodge 9780300277883
Booksplease Price: $49.55A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image... -
The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London by Gerry Beegan 9781349363070
Booksplease Price: $179.52The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how... -
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ben Davies 9780192857682
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $149.99Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach... -
The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London by Gerry Beegan 9780230553279
Booksplease Price: $176.59The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how... -
Hooked: Art and Attachment by Rita Felski
Booksplease Price: $47.05How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end?... -
Hooked: Art and Attachment Rita Felski 9780226729466
Booksplease Price: $165.36How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end?... -
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $29.17"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."-Adam Phillips"A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been....